The First of a Series on the Biggest American Crop
The article discusses corn origins, teosinte, and early breeding efforts led by Reid Yellow Dent Blount Prolific and Boone County White. It explains seed selection, seed corn houses, and the monetary return of proper seed preservation, highlighting a $500 seed house yielding $1,500 profit in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. P. Hartly
United States Department of Agriculture
Mexico
Teosinte
North America
James L. Reid
Reid
Professor Blount
Blount
James Riley
Boone County
CL Bo Lane
Department of Agriculture
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Barron
Missouri
Cummins Proposes United States Bank With Branches
Senator Cummins advances a plan for a United States bank with publicly owned branches and government control. It would be both a bankers bank and a commercial bank able to loan the public, contrasting with administration and Vanderlip bills. The measure aims to prevent local banks from hindering credit and to provide direct government lending when communities fail to extend credit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Cummins
Senate
Vanderlip
United States
Bankers
House
Bankers’ Bank
Central Banking Organization
U. S
Coramins
Bank of the
Federal Reserve Bank
Reserve Sya
Fairbank Social Notes and Obituary Highlights
Fairbank residents welcome visitors from Tacoma and Albert Lea while others attend religious events and a government league gathering. The community mourns the death of Martha Smalley, born 1825 in New York, with a Sunday funeral at 3 pm. Local figures return from travels, and Epworth league members host Dunkerton guests for an evening church program and oyster supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Betts
Lelia
J. H. Mitchell
Wymore
Neb
Ralph Ellis
Fairbanks
United States Navy
Washington, D. C
B. F. Ellis
Herbert Everett
Fairbank
Utah
U. P. Railroad
Hilbert Brant
Albert Lea
Minn
Ion
Dunkerton League
A. G. Agnew
Epworth League
Dunkerton
Anna Curley
Delwein
H. R. Agnew
Waterloo
Martha Smalley
Mary Smailey
New York
Vinton
A. A. Peddicord
Methodist Church
Engine Doing Pine Work and Road Progress Update
Engine and tractor purchased by the county board for use on the Cedar Falls to Waterloo road. Work underway on the new Whatties road. maintenance crews report excellent progress and readiness to continue until weather prevents. Nearby, Mr and Mrs W A Dodd announce the arrival of a baby daughter Dorothy Elizabeth Dodd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ratiaty Board of Supervisors
Whatties
Waterloo
Cedar Falla
Mineliame
Doe
Linwehioe Wollte
Cedar Falle
W. A. Dodd
Fourth Street West
Dorothy Uzabeth Odd
Florida’s Sunshine Growth Draws National Praise
A promotional piece extols Florida as a growing land of opportunity drawing praise from figures like Champ Clark and Woodrow Wilson. It cites favorable reports from newspapers including Grinnell Iowa World and Chicago Tribune, highlighting citrus, truck farming, low land prices, and a booming prospect for poor settlers. It notes irrigation via artesian wells along the East Coast, climate advantages, and popular winter resort hubs from Jacksonville to Key West as a national spotlight on Florida’s potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Champ Clark
House of
Ford
United States
Chicago Tribune
America
Sanford
Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Ormonl
Dayton
New Sviarna
Rockledge
Palm Beach
Miami
Knight's Key
Key West
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Business Farmer's Page
George T. Powell
Agricultural Experts’ Association
Troiling
Pacific Coast
Great Lakes
Kentucky
Tennessee
Lake Champlain
Hudson River
George AL Cosgrove
Amoerien
Connectiuut Agricutural College
Storrs
Conn
Asrensorral
Mountain Grove
Mra
Louis Iomrwell
Kiekelbere Gauk
Beth
Vartan
Neva Sawyer
Cumming
BRILL
C. S. Bank
Bank of England
Congress
ANK
Eures
Wangler Bros. Co
Kininp, Geren & Intelly
Grand View
la Porte City
Iowa
Hetty
D.C. Knupp
CG. Geren
John Butchy
Hite & Son
Roy EL Ashley
Welock
Courier
Bryvests
Cpeater
Collies
Breeder's Gazette
Chicago
Nature
Seaman A. Knapp
South
Washington Post
Peninsula
Jorida
Syndicate Building
Telephone
Florida Indian River Land CO
A. T. Whittle
Agt
Stanley S. Lichty
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